Robert Gardner
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA — Nov 05 1925• Died Jun 21 2014
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Biography
Robert Gardner was the Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard University from 1957 to 1997. He is known for his work in the field of non-fiction film. He is an internationally renowned filmmaker and author whose works have entered the permanent canon of non-fiction filmmaking. Some of his most prominent films include Dead Birds (1964), a lyric account of the Dugum Dani, a Stone Age society at one time living an isolated existence in the Highlands of the former Netherlands New Guinea (Gardner was the leader of the Peabody Museum-sponsored expeditio…
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Robert Gardner's Credits
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Screening Room
Himself
Islam: Empire of Faith
Directing
Marathon
Directing
Dead Birds
Narrator
The Hunters
Directing
Reality's Invisible
Himself
The Shepherds of Berneray
Production
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival
Narrator
Ika Hands
Directing
The Nuer
Production
Expedition Content
Camera
Mark Tobey Abroad
Directing
Loving Krishna
Narrator
Hauling Sharks
Directing
Forest of Bliss
Directing
Good to Pull (Bon a Tirer)
Directing
Sean Scully: Testigos AKA The Witnesses
Directing
Sean Scully: Passenger
Directing
Sons of Shiva
Directing
Mark Tobey
Directing
Dancing with Miklos
Directing
Dances of the Kwakiutl
Production
Deep Hearts
Directing
It Could Be Good, It Could Be Bad
Directing
Deus Ex Boltanski
Directing
Policeman
Directing
Life Keeps on Passing
Directing
Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!
Self
Pilot Notes: Journals Of A Solitary Aviator
Crew
Altar of Fire
Directing
Supplicating Women
Directing
Farmer
Directing
Blunden Harbour
Directing
People and Particles
Production
Salt
Directing
Serpent Mother
Narrator
Lobsterman
Directing
Tide
Directing
Healing
Directing
Looking at Forest of Bliss
Himself
The Great Sail
Directing
Scully in Malaga
Directing
The Old Lady AKA A Human Document
Directing
Land-Divers of Melanesia
Directing
Rivers of Sand
Directing
Flaherty and Film
Self - Host
Creatures of Pain
Directing
Time Indefinite
Himself
Still Journey On
Directing
Anthem
Directing
Fort Rupert
Narrator
The Photographer
Directing